Air Kasai. Stored Ndolo Kinshasa. Ex ZS-EDX. Information received from Brendan Odell on 4 October 2009 is that the aircraft has been fitted with Antonov AN-2 propellers and is nicely painted in Air Kasai livery.

I (Brendan Odell) have visited C-47B 9Q-CAM (s/n 17142/34409) in Goma DRC on 12 June 2009. I can confirm from its logbook information, that prior to its sale to Virunga Air Charter in 1981 and reregistration to that company as 9Q-CAM, it held the identity of 9T-JDM between 1963 and 1980. The "JDM" sufffix was for Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, as it was his VIP aircraft, and still retains its original VIP interior, even now. He later changed his name to Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngendu Wa Za Bang. (Mobutu Sésé Seko as he was more comonly known)

Virunga Air Charter

Douglas DC-3 Passenger and Cargo operations Goma, DRC

DC-3 operations since 1980 with DC-3 9Q-CAM

Contact Simba or Victor Ngezayo +24 3 99 819 0659

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Air Katanga/ITAB

ITAB International Trans Air Business

Charters from Lubumbashi, DRC

Air Katanga have been operating DC-3 charters from Lubumbashi for more than 25 years

A visit in Kinshasa. I visited Åke Jansson, owner of TAZ Transports Aériens Zairois, and had the opportunity of taking these pictures

Text and Photograph: Rolf Larsson

c/n 19771

9Q-CYE

TAZ no titles Kinshasa N´dolo 17 April 1986

Photograph: Rolf Larsson

C/N 197719Q-CYEPhotograph: Michel Anciaux

c/n 26457

9Q-CJM

Possibly operated by Safari Air, later reported as to TAZ but was not part of the TAZ fleet at the time of my visit

Tex and Photograph: Rolf Larsson

C/N 33445

9Q-CUK

At Vallentuna, north of Stockholm, on 21 October 1991

Photograph: Rolf Larsson

C/N 33445

9Q-CUK

2 October 2010

Photograph: Anders Melin

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Found your most interesting site. 9Q-CUK “Congo Queen” is still going (flying) strong in Sweden. She is still owned by Ake Jansson and now operated by Vallentuna Aviators http://www.vallentuna-aviators.se

I have visited C-47B 9Q-CAM (s/n 17142/34409) in Goma DRC. I can confirm from its logbook information, that prior to its sale to Virunga Air Charter in 1981 and reregistration to that company as 9Q-CAM, it held the identity of 9T-JDM between 1963 and 1980. The "JDM" sufffix was for Joseph-Désiré Mobutu, as it was his VIP aircraft, and still retains its original VIP interior, even now.